On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 2:00 PM Luis Carril <luis.carril@swarm64.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for working on the comments. I noticed one behavior is
> different when --table option is specified. When --table is specified
> the following are not getting dumped:
> CREATE SERVER foreign_server
>
> I felt the above also should be included as part of the dump when
> include-foreign-data option is specified.
>
> Yes, it also happens on master. A dump of a foreign table using --table, which only dumps the table definition, does
notinclude the extension nor the server.
> I guess that the idea behind --table is that the table prerequisites should already exist on the database.
>
> A similar behavior can be reproduced for a non foreign table. If a table is created in a specific schema, dumping
onlythe table with --table does not dump the schema definition.
>
> So I think we do not need to dump the server with the table.
>
Thanks for the clarification, the behavior sounds reasonable to me
unless others have a different opinion on this.
Regards,
Vignesh
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